Richard Henry Stoddard Quotes (9 quotes)

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Famous Richard Henry Stoddard Quotes

“A face at the window,
A tap on the pane;
Who is it that wants me
To-night in the rain?”

The Messenger at Night.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“We have two lives about us,
Two worlds in which we dwell,
Within us and without us,
Alternate Heaven and Hell
Without, the somber Real,
Within, our hearts of hearts, the beautiful Ideal.”

Richard Henry Stoddard

The Castle in the Air.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“There are gains for all our losses,
There are balms for all our pain:
But when youth, the dream, departs,
It takes something from our hearts,
And it never comes again.”

Richard Henry Stoddard

The Flight of Youth.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.”

Richard Henry Stoddard

Persian Song.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Pale in her fading bowers the Summer stands,
Like a new Niobe with claspèd hands,
Silent above the flowers, her children lost,
Slain by the arrows of the early Frost.”

Richard Henry Stoddard

Ode.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“It beckons, I follow.
Good-by to the light,
I am going, O whither?
Out into the night.”

Richard Henry Stoddard

The Messenger at Night.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Not what we would, but what we must
Makes up the sum of living;
Heaven is both more and less than just
In taking and in giving.”

Richard Henry Stoddard

The Country Life.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Silence is the speech of love,
The music of the spheres above.”

Richard Henry Stoddard

Speech of Love.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Children are the keys of Paradise … They alone are good and wise, Because their thoughts, their very lives, are prayer.”

Richard Henry Stoddard

Songs of Summer (1856), p. 113.

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